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U.S.  DEPOSITORY 
(Amendment  2  to  B.  A.  I.  Order  273.) 

United  States  Department  of  Agriculture. 

BUREAU  OF  ANIMAL  INDUSTRY. 


Amendment    2    to    B.    A.    I.    Order    273     (regulations    governing    the    interstate    movement    of 
livestock),   modifying  Regulation  7. 

Effective  on  and  after  July  23,  1923, 


United  States  Department  of  Agriculture, 

Office  of  the  Secretary. 

Under  the  authority  conferred  by  law  upon  the  Secretary  of  Agri- 
culture, the  regulations  of  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  governing 
the  interstate  movement  of  livestock  (B.  A.  I.  Order  273),  issued 
under  date  of  May  6,  1921,  effective  July  1,  1921,  as  amended,  are 
hereby  further  amended  in  the  following  particulars : 

Paragraph  4  of  section  3  and  paragraph  6  of  section  4,  Regulation 
7,  are  revoked. 

Paragraph  1,  section  1,  Regulation  7,  is  amended  by  adding  thereto 
at  the  end  thereof  the  following : 

Provided,  hotvever.  That  cattle  which  have  at  any  time  re- 
acted to  the  tuberculin  test  shall  not  thereafter  be  shipped, 
driven  on  foot,  transported,  or  received  for  transportation  inter- 
state, notwithstanding  such  cattle  may  have  been  subjected 
again  to  the  tuberculin  test  and  on  such  subsequent  test  have 
been  found  apparently  free  from  tuberculosis,  except  in  cases 
where  the  reacting  cattle  are  permitted  to  be  moved  interstate 
subject  to  the  conditions  and  requirements  prescribed  in  section 
3,  4,  or  6  of  this  regulation. 

A  new  paragraph  to  be  designated  as  paragraph  7  is  added  to  sec- 
tion 2  of  Regulation  7  reading  as  follows : 

Cattle  not  under  quarantine  by  the  State  may  be  shipped 
interstate  subject  to  State  restrictions  at  destination,  without 
the  tuberculin  test  required  in  section  1  of  this  regulation,  from 
areas  officially  declared  by  the  chief  of  the  bureau  as  "  modified 
accredited  areas,"  i.  e.,  areas  in  which  the  percentage  of  cattle 

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infected  with  tuberculosis  does  not  exceed  one-half  of  one  per 
cent    (0.5%),  when  such  cattle  are  properly  identified  by  ear 
tags  or  registration  names  and  numbers  and  are  accompanied 
by  a  certificate  issued  by  an  authorized  State  or  Federal  in- 
spector, or  veterinarian   approved   by   the   State,  showing  the 
cattle  to  have  originated  in  such  modified  area. 
This  amendment,  which  for  the  purpose  of  identification  is  desig- 
nated as  Amendment  2  to  B.  A.  I.  Order  273,  shall  be  effective  on 
and  after  July  23,  1923. 

^^^         Done  at  the  city  of  Washington,  this  16th  daY  of 
July,  1923.  J 

Witness  my  hand  and  the  seal  of  the  Department  of 
Agriculture. 

C.  F.  Marvin, 
Acting  Secretary  of  Agriculture. 


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